marklok teaches Mike to cite Danish and EU law

This fork now recognises formal legal references and pulls the exact provision back as a clickable citation.

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marklok has wired Danish statute law and EU regulation into the assistant. When it spots a formal legal reference in a question - a specific statute section, an article of an EU regulation - it now fetches that exact provision and the passages most similar to it, then surfaces them in the answer as clickable citations. A slide-in panel shows the underlying source. The material is pulled from Retsinformation, Denmark's official legal database, and EUR-Lex, the EU's law portal.

Two of the smaller fixes here travel well beyond Danish law: citations no longer silently vanish when they lack a page number, and the stop button stops tempting users to cancel an answer mid-stream and lose their references. Both are worth lifting even if Danish statute isn't your problem.

So what Anyone building legal AI for a civil-law jurisdiction - where citations follow a strict, predictable format - should study how this fork resolves them.

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4 commits from marklok/danishmike, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`130ce0ae`	Add Danish law & EUR-Lex retrieval pipeline	Markus	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
commit body - Add lawRetrieval.ts: vector search + metadata-based fallback for specific § and Artikel references, merges results and dedupes - Add ingestion scripts for Retsinformation and EUR-Lex (DORA, PRIIPs) - Add document_chunks table migration and IVFFlat index (lists=20) - Wire law context into chat and project-chat routes - Add RETSINFORMATION_LAWS and EURLEX_REGULATIONS env vars to .env.example - Ignore backend/data/ (local EUR-Lex HTML files) in .gitignore Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`20f4a079`	Add inline law citation panel	Markus	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
commit body Law citations (Retsinformation / EUR-Lex) now open in a slide-in panel on the same page instead of navigating to an external URL. Shows source badge, full excerpt text, and a link to the original source. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`90a57483`	Fix law citations not rendering as clickable pills	Markus	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
commit body - normalizeCitation: treat page:null as page=0 instead of dropping the citation (law chunks have no page number) - Emit loading_citations SSE event when <CITATIONS> block starts so the frontend can track citation generation state - Strengthen formatLawContext prompt to reliably produce <CITATIONS> blocks Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`3f95ec9d`	Fix streaming UX: hide stop button during citation generation	Markus	2026-05-08	↗ GitHub
commit body When visible text finishes but the invisible <CITATIONS> block is still generating, the stop button now switches to the send arrow so the user can't accidentally cancel and lose citations. The streaming indicator on the last message also stops during this phase. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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